I get black spatter out of mine when it is warming up and it is tuned perfectly. It's just the carbon in the exhaust getting mixed with water and shooting out the tailpipe. You might want to check your valve clearances since a lot of your problems seem to point to them being set too tight- low vacuum, low power when hot, miss. Either that or your ignition is needing some tuning.


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